Review by Booklist Review
The creators of 10 Trick-or-Treaters (2005) and 10 Trim-the-Tree'ers (2010) tackle Easter in this simple, appealing counting book. Baby crawls across the floor. / What is that by the mouse door? One egg, of course, getting its own spot on a block of white on the verso page. As the book continues in simple rhyme, more children join the hunt, eventually finding 10 eggs. Davick's candy-colored pictures have plenty of charm as kids of mixed ethnicities run through the house and gambol on the lawn. This will get children excited about Easter, the advent of spring, and perhaps even counting.--Cooper, Ilene Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
In Davick and the late Schulman's third holiday counting title, 10 impish children hunt for eggs inside and outside a purple house that could pass for Barbie's starter home ("Pam looks in the tulip pots,/ Finds an egg with polka dots"). Schulman has fun with her rhymed couplets ("And now for something really delicious,/ A big chocolate egg for sweet Aloysius"), and readers can count the eggs that accumulate on the right side of each spread. An energetic Easter morning read. Ages 3-8. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 1-Written in rhyming couplets, this counting book brings back the kids from 10 Trick-or-Treaters (2005) and 10 Trim-the-Tree'ers (2010, both Knopf). It opens with a fluffy white Easter bunny waking to hide a basket of eggs. The 10 eager children search high and low, inside and out. Baby is the first to find an egg. "Baby crawls across the floor./What is that by the mouse door?" As each child meets with success, the eggs are tallied in a right-hand sidebar of the spread. The children track down all of the eggs in time to attend the Easter parade in their festive holiday hats. Flat cartoon illustrations feature grinning, round-faced children and a palette of pastel pinks, yellows, greens, and blues. For a more vibrant celebration of this Easter tradition, Jan Brett's The Easter Egg (Putnam, 2010) and Michael Garland's The Great Easter Egg Hunt (Dutton, 2005) are better selections.-Linda L. Walkins, Mount Saint Joseph Academy, Brighton, MA (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
Don't try learning to count with this clunky-rhymed companion to 10 Trick-or-Treaters and 10 Trim-the-Tree'ers; the number of Easter eggs in the text doesn't usually match the number of eggs in the pictures. The accompanying pastel-hued illustrations have a slick, computer-generated appearance that detracts from some of the humor the text and pictures are trying to get across. (c) Copyright 2011. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Preschoolers who are learning to count will find little help in this ill-conceived story about 10 children on an Easter egg hunt for their own uniquely decorated eggs. The format uses a large illustration and two rhyming lines of text on each left-hand page, with a panel on the right-hand page stating the total number of eggs found so far and showing those differently colored eggs in a larger, uniform size. The primary illustration presents several children from the cast of 10, all searching for their own special eggs, with one child finding an egg on each spread. The concept is confusing, because the stated number of eggs usually does not correspond with the number of eggs shown in the hunt scene. For example, on the page for 10 eggs, only six eggs are shown in the larger illustration. Sometimes one of the eggs in the illustration is from the following page's find, so that particular color of egg is not included in the tally of eggs found so far, even though the egg is right there in the illustration. Children who are used to practicing totaling up a number of items in counting books will wonder what is going on here, and in fact, it's confusing for adult readers who are trying to help them. Count this one out.(Picture book. 2-5)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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